Improved carpet-fastener



' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

` JOHN O. JONES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED CARPET-FASTENER.

i Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,410, dated June 27, 1865.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN O. JONES, ofBoston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Or Improved Self-Fastener for Floor-Carpets g and I` do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the yaccompanying drawings, of which- ,E

Figure 1 is a section of my invention asapplied to a oor andwit'li a carpet placed within it. Fig. 2 is a top view, Fig. 3, a side view, and Figs. et and 5 end views, ot' my invention, which consists in the application to the floor of aroom of an'eccentric or curved plate and4 its supportingiframe, by means Ot' which a carpet maybe securelyattached to the floor, while at the same time it allows the carpet to be easily and expeditiously removed from the said hoor.

Theinconvenience and laborof puttingdown and taking up floor-carpets is well known. In the mannerusuall y practiced of securing them to floors, by nailing, alarge amountof time and expenditure of strength are required, as the carl pet must be first forced up to its place against the wall and there held while the hail is being driven.

In the use of my invention the only strength to be exerted is that necessary to force the carpet under the above-mentioned eccentric.

The great value of my invention consists in the ease and celerity with which carpets may f be taken up from the oor, as to accomplish this it is only necessary' to force the carpet toward the wall of the room and remove the eccentric from oft` it, when it will be withdrawn from the fastener by it own retraction, thus l avoiding the disagreeable' labor of withdrawing the nails, with which carpets are now se@ cured, and which constitutes one ot' the greatest annoyances of house-keeping.

In the drawings above mentioned, @denotes y a metallic plate, formed with lips or ears b b, which serve as a support for an eccentric or curved plate, @,turning upon a fulcrum or pin, (1, passing through its upper part and the lips b b, as seen in the drawings. The lower surface of the eccentric, as well as the upper surface of the plate a, is roughened or provided with corrugations or teeth.

In the operation of the above-described apparatus, which is to be properly secured to the lloor ofthe room and in close proximity to the wall thereof, the carpet is to be stretched and pushed under the eccentric and between it and the plate, and eccentric pressed'down upon it. 4The strain upon the carpet tends to draw the eccentric toward the plate and coniine the said carpet very tightly and securely between them.

The application and arrangement Ot the above-described apparatus, substantially in' manner and to operate as before described. JOHN O. JONES.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, GEORGE WHITE. 

